MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 318, September 17, 1958 ]
FURTHER AMENDING THE FOURTH PARAGRAPH OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 298, DATED AUGUST 12, 1940, ENTITLED “PRESCRIBING THE AUTOMATIC RENEWAL OF CONTRACTS, REQUIRING PUBLIC BIDDING BEFORE ENTERING INTO NEW CONTRACTS, AND PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS THEREFOR,” AS INSERTED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 146, DATED DECEMBER 27, 1955, AND AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 212, DATED NOVEMBER 6, 1956
The fourth paragraph of Executive Order No. 298, dated August 12, 1940, as inserted by Executive Order No. 146, dated December 27, 1955, and amended by Executive Order No. 212, dated November 6, 1956, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
“However, highway district engineers, city engineers, or project engineers can make direct purchases with any known company in their respective provinces, or in nearby provinces, of spare parts for machinery and equipment used in public works which are of the make of the company and/or locally manufactured spare parts of any make which have been tested and found satisfactory by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications and at its prices, less the usual discount extended to government offices and another discount for cash purchases, provided that if such purchases exceed P3, 000, 00 per month, prior authority shall be secured from the Secretary of Public Works and Communications; and, provided, further, that except in cases of urgently needed spare parts for immediate use and not for the purpose of carrying them in stock, the approval of the Auditor General or his authorized representative shall be secured before such direct purchases are made.”
Done in the City of Manila, this 17th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the thirteenth.1a⍵⍴h!1
(Sgd.) CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JUAN C. PAJO
Executive Secretary
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